Never been the one who likes cooking and I'm not a foodie either. I do have the occasional craving for the Japanese food now and then but I can easily dismiss the thought and just go on with life. Thankfully husband isn’t a foodie either so he didnt mind so much what's on the table. Yeah, lucky girl. But of course I can cook. Just the simple ones that dont take too much time. I dont like the heat and it'd be just too much if I requested for an aircond in the kitchen, would it?
I made Mac & Cheese last night at Mom's place. Not from those boxed-up Mac & Cheese though and it's good (I'm the champion of masuk bakul angkat sendiri btw). Mom wants me to post it up here so she can replicate it later for whenever I got too lazy to do it again. Which is something that can be expected from me. But to my defence, whatever mom made is way better. So why bother. Right? Right.
So here are things you'll need, mama.
1. Macs (For macaronis. I use short forms because I'm cool that way). I used half box
2. Fresh Mozzarellas or packed. Any way will do.
3. Cheddar. Any form that you'll find the fridge.
4. The Cheese Mix.
5. Ground black pepper
5. Sliced Button Mushroom (I used the tinned mushrooms)
6. Franks or frankfurter you might call it while we called it as Hotdog. (Thin slices)
No measurements. I just dumped everything in and expect for the best.
So here is it. Let’s start off with the macs. Pre-boiled it at exactly 15 minutes. We don’t want to over-cook it. Then strain it. Put aside.
Excuse the ugly pictures. You can't expect me to post pretty hi-res pictures while my camera is in your custody, ma.
Ok. Sambung.
Boil some franks and button mushrooms. I'm lazy, so I
boil everything together with the macs. Then slice the franks into thin pieces
using the veggie slicer making it look like beef bacons slices. Same thing
with the mushrooms but I just use knife. Slice 'em thinly. Best effect is to sauté both mushrooms and franks before mixing them with the macs. But I dont do that and you know why. Mix with macs and
add a tasteful of ground black pepper. Mix well.
The cheese. The trick is to use 3 different cheeses. One that binds the macaronis together that gives the gooey and stringy effect to the dish. Fresh Mozzarellas is the best bet for this. Another would give a bitter and milky taste of the cheese. So I added Cheddar to the mix because it is easily available at home. We always have Cheddar. The last one is a little tricky but man, this taste sooo good. It is actually a cheese powder that will be mixed with water. I didn’t know what it is called, but it's the same one used by KFC for their famous Cheesy Wedges. Ok, I'm not helping and I don’t have the picture for that mix but Mom do and I bet Mom will post it soon. When she does, I'll be sure to link it here. Mix all together and nuke (microwave) them for 1- 2 minute. Stir. Add them into the mixed up macs.
No salt because the cheese mix is already salty.
Pre heat the oven to 250C before baking then bake for 10-15 minutes or until your top layer turns golden brown and then, done. Tadaaaaaa!
Estimation time it took : 35 minutes.
So eat up, then sleep. The perfect twinning program so far.
Queen Bee never like that idea of me choosing sleep over food because she likes cooking and she like what she's cooking. We all do. Even down to her simplest Sup Sayur tastes gooooood. Hence the Royal Queen is in the midst of cooking up a storm for this space. She's been taking an awful load of pictures of good food that she cooked and managed to transfer the ownership of my Canon S90 camera to her permanently. One of the many fights I had lost to her. So here I am, updating so this space won’t go stale. I hope she starts blogging soon and take over this space permanently. I know she has big plan for this blog.
So mama, cepat update!
Loads of love.
-The Daughter.
